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Chinese authorities have signalled they'll likely probe Meta's planned acquisition of made-in-China AI platform Manus. Meta announced the acquisition on December 29, 2025, and said Manus will become part of its consumer and business products. On Thursday, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce said Beijing intends to investigate the acquisition to ensure it won't infringe China's export controls or foreign investment laws.

The memory chip stocks have been really heating up to start the year, thanks in part to the AI-driven RAM shortage, which could last well into the year's end and perhaps beyond. Undoubtedly, AI demand is showing no signs of slowing down, and as the high-performance memory needs continue to blast off, questions linger as to how the top memory players can step up to meet the needs of this unprecedented boom.

It seems that until now, Minecraft has generated its baby animals by scaling down the body size of their adult forms, but keeping the heads the same. And that's good. That's worked. But there was room for improvement. In the next update, due in the spring, all the game's younger animals will receive bespoke designs, complete with all-new animations, sound effects, and the cutest iddle widdle eyes you've ever seen.

Cisco aims to "build high-fidelity quantum networks to unlock the potential for large-scale quantum data centers," Kompella told Telecompetitor in an interview. The company is working closely with IBM on the research, with IBM's role focused primarily on the computing side, while Cisco tackles the networking side. Quantum computers use concepts of quantum physics. They're more powerful than traditional non-quantum computers, known in quantum jargon as "classical" computers. But, as of today, there is no way to network quantum computers.

The move suggests the two companies, while partners today, could start taking each others' business. Faculty was founded in the UK by New Zealand-born physicist Marc Warner in 2014, ostensibly to make AI useful to the world and "safely deliver the AI revolution." The company works with customers on AI strategy, design, infrastructure, development, and operations and creates a computational twin of an organization to simulate and refine business decisions.

CEO Jensen Huang showed off Cosmos, an AI foundation model trained on massive datasets, capable of simulating environments governed by actual physics. He also announced Alpamayo, an AI model specifically designed for autonomous driving. Huang revealed that Nvidia's next generation AI superchip platform, dubbed Vera Rubin, is in full production, and that Nvidia has a new partnership with Siemens. All of this shows Nvidia is going to fight increased competition to retain its reputation as the backbone of the AI industry.

The game was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they're still under development. Paluzzi shared a screenshot of the basketball game, which appears to let users virtually shoot hoops by swiping their finger. The idea behind the game is likely to allow friends to compete to see who can score the most baskets, similar to other mobile basketball games.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has been accused of generating non-consensual sexualized images of real people, including children. Over the past week, X has been flooded with manipulated photos that remove people's clothes, dress them in bikinis, or rearrange them into sexually suggestive positions. The nonconsensual images have left some women feeling violated. Meanwhile, their creation using Grok and their presence on X may land Musk's company in significant legal trouble in several countries around the world.

The company's automotive efforts have been buoyed by the Chinese car market's adoption of lidar sensors, which Hesai said is now in 25% of new electric cars sold in the country. It also claimed that many new vehicles in China are expected to integrate between three to six lidar sensors per car, "significantly expanding Hesai's addressable market." Hesai boasts 24 automotive customers, including a "top European" automaker, and said it has 4 million orders for its newest ATX lidar sensor.

Recent developments suggest that the labor movement is starting to take a more active and adversarial approach toward AI in the workplace, This was hardly an isolated incident amid the breakneck integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace. Ominous signs abound, from the news editor at a nonprofit news site who used AI to edit stories and then fired a reporter for raising objections, to Salesforce's cutting 4,000 customer support jobs and shifting to AI agents.

Tesla has expanded its fleet of Cybercab test units in both Austin and the Bay Area of California, as the vehicle is heading toward the first production stages, hopefully early this year. As the first few units were spotted in Austin late last year, Tesla is now operating seven total Cybercab units in testing, three of which were spotted over the weekend in Texas. Bay Area testing just started on January 3, with both units also being added to the fleet on Saturday and Sunday.

Lidar-maker Luminar says its founder and former CEO Austin Russell has been evading requests for information - including a subpoena - that the company needs in order to decide whether it should take legal action against him. The company, which entered the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in late December, said in an emergency filing over the weekend that it has been trying to reclaim company-owned devices from Russell since his resignation in May.

Starlink added a page to its Help Center on Sunday detailing its offer of Starlink service credits for Venezuelans, providing free connectivity through February 3. According to the page, active Starlink customers in Venezuela will see service credits proactively applied to their accounts, while inactive customers will be able to reactivate through the beginning of February without having to pay for service.

As an avid book lover, I'm a sucker for a great e-reader. Yet many of these devices are way too limited to really become a companion device. This is why I loved the TCL Nxtpaper tablet so much; however, the new DuRobo Krono is here to address that tablet's single downfall: it's a pocket e-reader and productivity device that is finally available for preorder.

AWS recently announced the new Graviton5 processor and the preview of the first EC2 instances running on it, the general-purpose M9g instances. According to the cloud provider, the latest chip delivers up to 25% higher performance than Graviton4, introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine, and provides a larger L3 cache, improving latency, memory bandwidth, and network throughput. According to the press release, the new Arm-powered EC2 M9g instances provide up to 192 CPU cores per instance. The higher core density reduces inter-core latency by up to 33% and increases bandwidth, improving scaling for workloads such as databases, analytics, application servers, gaming, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

Dec 22, 2025 - BROOMFIELD, Colo.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Intrepid Fiber Networks, the nation's leading wholesale open-access fiber infrastructure provider, today announced a significant milestone in its national expansion with the launch of its network in California. Intrepid is planning on an initial investment in the cities of Vista and San Marcos located in San Diego County with further expansion plans across the state.

A reader we'll Regomize as "Barb" who showed up for Y2K duty carrying a bottle of champagne, which rather upset her boss who had laid in sparkling grape juice to keep the on call crew sober. Barb was having none of it and fair enough, because she married just 12 days before Y2K eve and postponed her honeymoon to work that night.

When the company reported Q3 earnings on Oct. 29, it announced quarterly revenue of $51.24 billion, beating analysts' expectations of $49.41 billion by 26.2%. Adjusted EPS came in at $7.25, beating expectations of $6.69 by 20.2%. But GAAP ESP of $1.05 fell 82.6% short of expectations of $6.70. Still, the company's third-quarter sales rose 26% year-over-year, which is its highest revenue growth since FY 2024 Q1.

In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized the world was not many years away from running out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses, the numbers needed to identify any device connected to the public internet. Noting booming interest in the internet, the internet community went looking for ways to avoid an IP address shortage that many feared would harm technology adoption and therefore the global economy.

Shai Hulud was first observed in September and specifically targets the JavaScript ecosystem. Instead of attacking end users, the malware focuses on developers by hiding malicious code in npm packages. Once such a package is installed, the malware attempts to collect sensitive information, including environment variables, API keys, and secrets from cloud and CI/CD environments. This data is then automatically leaked to GitHub repositories created by the attacker.